The Border
Let's start right off with what bothers me about this whole immigration problem.
If you're here illegally you do not have the right to tell me that I HAVE to grant you amnesty. If I don't believe in your cause I'm automatically labeled a racist. That's a pretty convenient and damning response that has no idea about who I am or where I come from.
I have nothing against immigration, as long as it's done legally. America was, and is made of immigrants. Most of us can trace our ancestry to Europe, or Asia. Unfortunately the African-American community can also trace their lineage back to the shores of the African continent, but that is about as far as they can pinpoint their roots. I say unfortunate, because they were forced to immigrate to the shores of North America, and kept as slaves. Have been ridiculed for skin color and mocked in minstrel shows, and generally been the objects of hate since the first slave touched his feet on American soil. African Americans have been lynched, been denied their given right to vote, kept segregated from whites, and have been forced to live in ghettos. Even today young black men and women mainly see three ways out.....Drugs, Sports, or entertainment. Education is not a priority to the community at large. All you have to do is compare the school in a suburb to a school in the inner-city. You tell me where the most successful student is going to come from.
That ladies and gentlemen is racism.............Racism is not nor should it ever be considered in the case of people that cross our borders illegally. I don't care about their skin color, or the fact they don't speak English. What I care about is that there is a process for someone to come here, and I'm sorry if that's not fast enough for you, but that is our nation's way of doing things.
Have you seen how hard it is to immigrate to Australia? or New Zealand? I have, because I was seriously thinking of going to one or the other and start a new life several years ago.
Australia's immigration policy is based on their need for your skills, your age, and if you have enough money to make it for either six months or one year, so you don't have to impact their welfare system. Wow, what an incredible concept........
Something needs to be done people, whether you want to come to terms with that or not. Many of these illegals are for all intents and purposes slaves. They are at the whim and mercy of their employer. How willing would you be to complain about working conditions if you had the threat of being turned in, or heck even killed, after all there isn't any record of your existence. Do you really think illegals (farm migrants) make minimum wage?
Have any of you heard of the 12 or 13 y/o girl that was found in a migrant shanty town somewhere here in Florida last year? She was the camp prostitute, chained to the bedpost, servicing fifteen to twenty men a day. Her only possession was a teddy bear. How about the truckload of illegals found on the side of the road, dead or dying because the truck broke down and the drivers ran off, leaving them INSIDE the trailer.
If I'm to be called a racist for opposing illegal immigration, then so be it. Then you just remember that I just want the above listed examples from happening to any more people.
So I say put the Guard on the border with Mexico, ship all illegals (that don't have children born here) home, and we'll just have to see IF we can get along without them for awhile, until they can come back the right way.
I don't think that concern over the fluidity of the border is wrong.
(PS I still need you to act on the post below)
If you're here illegally you do not have the right to tell me that I HAVE to grant you amnesty. If I don't believe in your cause I'm automatically labeled a racist. That's a pretty convenient and damning response that has no idea about who I am or where I come from.
I have nothing against immigration, as long as it's done legally. America was, and is made of immigrants. Most of us can trace our ancestry to Europe, or Asia. Unfortunately the African-American community can also trace their lineage back to the shores of the African continent, but that is about as far as they can pinpoint their roots. I say unfortunate, because they were forced to immigrate to the shores of North America, and kept as slaves. Have been ridiculed for skin color and mocked in minstrel shows, and generally been the objects of hate since the first slave touched his feet on American soil. African Americans have been lynched, been denied their given right to vote, kept segregated from whites, and have been forced to live in ghettos. Even today young black men and women mainly see three ways out.....Drugs, Sports, or entertainment. Education is not a priority to the community at large. All you have to do is compare the school in a suburb to a school in the inner-city. You tell me where the most successful student is going to come from.
That ladies and gentlemen is racism.............Racism is not nor should it ever be considered in the case of people that cross our borders illegally. I don't care about their skin color, or the fact they don't speak English. What I care about is that there is a process for someone to come here, and I'm sorry if that's not fast enough for you, but that is our nation's way of doing things.
Have you seen how hard it is to immigrate to Australia? or New Zealand? I have, because I was seriously thinking of going to one or the other and start a new life several years ago.
Australia's immigration policy is based on their need for your skills, your age, and if you have enough money to make it for either six months or one year, so you don't have to impact their welfare system. Wow, what an incredible concept........
Something needs to be done people, whether you want to come to terms with that or not. Many of these illegals are for all intents and purposes slaves. They are at the whim and mercy of their employer. How willing would you be to complain about working conditions if you had the threat of being turned in, or heck even killed, after all there isn't any record of your existence. Do you really think illegals (farm migrants) make minimum wage?
Have any of you heard of the 12 or 13 y/o girl that was found in a migrant shanty town somewhere here in Florida last year? She was the camp prostitute, chained to the bedpost, servicing fifteen to twenty men a day. Her only possession was a teddy bear. How about the truckload of illegals found on the side of the road, dead or dying because the truck broke down and the drivers ran off, leaving them INSIDE the trailer.
If I'm to be called a racist for opposing illegal immigration, then so be it. Then you just remember that I just want the above listed examples from happening to any more people.
So I say put the Guard on the border with Mexico, ship all illegals (that don't have children born here) home, and we'll just have to see IF we can get along without them for awhile, until they can come back the right way.
I don't think that concern over the fluidity of the border is wrong.
(PS I still need you to act on the post below)
posted by Tall Molly Man at 10:59 PM
2 Comments:
I totally disaggree with illegal immigration...
I totally disaggree with racism...
I know sometimes some folks find it ok to be a bit more open about their racism when one race or another is in a "bad light". ((think Katrina and now this immigration crack down))
I'm not familiar with the process to immigrate into the USA but the mexicans pay a horrid amount to the coyotes that ship them over... And risk their very lives to do so. :-(
The illegal immigrants though make it horribly difficult for us to accept actual legal immigrants since we have to compensate for financial responsibility of the illegals.
I agree with your opening paragraph, but not entirely with your closing solution. Your point, though, is well communicated.
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